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Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Collections

The Arts Collection Group includes collections of arts, from performing arts to graphical arts to comics and also includes architecture and landscape design as well as the psychology in art collection.Arts Collections

The Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature in the Department of Special Collections at the University of Florida's George A. Smathers Libraries contains more than 130,000 books and periodicals published in the United States and Great Britain from the mid-1600s to present day. The Library also has manuscript collections, original artwork, and assorted ephemera such as board games, puzzles, and toys. The Baldwin Library is known for comparative editions of books, with special emphasis on Robinson Crusoe, Pilgrim’s Progress, Aesop’s Fables, and Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. The Library also has the largest collection of Early American Juvenile Imprints of any academic institution in the United States.Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature

The Book Arts Digital Collection draws from the holdings in the Harold and Mary Jean Hanson Rare Book Collection in the UF Libraries' Special Collections.Book Arts

The Harold and Mary Jean Hanson Rare Book Collection in the Department of Special and Area Studies Collection is a comprehensive collection for research and instructional needs. The books range in date from the 15th century through the present era. Subject strengths include New England authors(the Parkman Dexter Howe Collection of literature and related cultural/historical topics for the 17th-19th centuries); history of science; classical literature in early printed editions, Restoration literature; 18th century poetry, prose and drama; Irish literature of the 19th and 20th centuries; and selected 20th century British and American poetry and fiction. (http://www.library.ufl.edu/spec/aboutspecial.htm).
History of Science Collection is particularly strong in astronomy and botany, Orchidiceae and subjects related to tropical flora and fauna intersects strongly with holdings of the Florida Museum of Natural History located at the University of Florida. https://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/The Harold and Mary Jean Hanson Rare Book Collection

History and heritage collections include the history of Florida, the historical role that Florida has played in the greater history of the U.S., and the general history of the United States.History and Heritage Collections

The literature collections include great literature and children's literature as well as general literary studies collections.Literature Collections

The Oral History Collections comprise the digital holdings of both the Matheson Museum (Gainesville, Florida) and the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida. Together, the Collections document life in Gainesville, across Florida, the Caribbean and other locales.Samuel Proctor Oral History Program (SPOHP)

Science and Technology Collections

The 'Food and Agricultural Sciences' General Collection holds general resources about agriculture, food crops, farming, and soil and climate conditions conducive to agriculture. A main stay of the collection is the publications of the Institute for Food and Agricultural Sciences. Special collections include Florida Historical Agriculture and Rural Life, International Farming Systems, and U.S. Department of Agriculture Soil Survey publications of Florida, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.Food and Agricultural Sciences

The 'University of Florida Herbarium Specimen Collections' provides digital images for selected specimens from the Florida Museum of Natural History / University of Florida Herbarium.Herbarium Collections

The sciences collections includes natural and earth sciences, herbarium collections, wetlands research, as well as food and agricultural sciences and sciences and technologies.Sciences Collections

Map Collections

Historical aerial photographs dramatically document changes in Florida's land use. The initial Aerial Photography: Florida collection was funded by two Florida Library Service and Technology Assistant grants from the Florida Department of State.Aerial Photography: Florida

Map and imagery collections includes maps of Florida and the world, both historic and contemporary, as well as aerial photographs of Florida.Map and Imagery Collections

Florida Collections

The Florida Digital Newspaper Library, hosted by the University of Florida Libraries, provides access to the news and history of Florida.Florida Digital Newspaper Library

Florida Law currently holds the Journal of the Florida House of Reprentatives and a Florida Water Law collection. Planned additions include the Laws of the Florida Territory and the Early Florida Constitutions, as well as a variety of general texts on Florida laws, the legislative process, and government.Florida Law Collections

Historic and contemporary photographs visually document Florida and the University of Florida. This collaborative collection was created with content from several schools within the University of Florida, the Matheson Historical Center Collection, SWFLN, and many other smaller archives, libraries, and museums.Florida Photograph Collections

Unearthing St. Augustine's Colonial Heritage is a National Endowment for the Humanities grant-funded project to digitally preserve a collection of hidden and fragile resources related to colonial St. Augustine, consisting of thousands of maps, drawings, photographs and documents available freely online. Partnering with the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida (UF) to realize this project are the City of St. Augustine departments of Heritage Tourism and the Archaeology Program, the St. Augustine Historical Society, and Government House, which is managed by UF. The project will be a resource for researchers, historians, archaeologists, architects, and historic preservationists, and will help in telling St. Augustine's unique "story" on a global scale. The Unearthing St. Augustine materials are scattered among four different repositories which have been previously inaccessible to researchers worldwide. Among the important items to be "unearthed," which date from the 1Unearthing St. Augustine's Colonial Heritage

World Collections

The African Studies Collection supports the past, ongoing, and future needs of University of Florida's Center for African Studies, one of the most active and well regarded such centers in the United States.African Studies Collections

This digital collection draws from the Asian Studies Collections at the University of Florida, and includes rare resources on Chinese Art History.Asian Collections

The Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC) is a cooperative digital library for resources from and about the Caribbean and circum-Caribbean. dLOC provides access to digitized versions of Caribbean cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections.Digital Library of the Caribbean

The Jewish Diaspora Collection (JDoC) is a collaborative and cooperative digital library designed to preserve and provide wide access to Jewish heritage materials from Florida, Latin America and the Caribbean. Modelled on the Digital Library of the Caribbean, JDoC provides a host site and portal for digitized versions of hidden and/or endangered Jewish cultural, historical and research materials currently held in archives, libraries, and private collections.Jewish Diaspora Collection

The South American Collections relect deep intellectual coverage of South America in the University of Florida Libraries. For decades the Libraries have acquired books, journals, newspapers, maps and other materials in print and computer based formats covering all countries and cultures of the region. These holdings are primarily housed in the University's Latin American Collection, but also include important resources in the other units of the UF Libraries, such as the Science Library, Map & Imagery Library, the Art Library, and the Legal Information Center. Researchers can study a wide range of diverse topics including Southern Cone literature and politics, Andean indigenous societies, Brazil’s creative expressions, and South America’s vast natural resources. Colombia, Venezuela, and the Guianas are also very well represented.South American Collections

The World Studies collections includes area studies outside of the United States, Florida, and the Caribbean.World Studies Collections

Panama and the Canal is a joint project from the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries and the Panama Canal Museum. Panama and the Canal builds from the Panama Canal Museum's rich collection of Panama and Canal Zone materials and the extensive holdings on Panama and the whole of Latin America from the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries.Panama and the Canal

This collection holds materials from and related to former US Senator George A. Smathers, who was designated a Great Floridian by the State of Florida in 1994.Papers of George A. Smathers

The Papers of Governor C. Farris Bryant cover the years 1942 to 1977, with an emphasis on the Florida Legislative, gubernatorial elections in 1956 and 1960, and his career in the Federal Office of Emergency Planning.Papers of Governor C. Farris Bryant

The Health Science Center Archives is a unit associated with and containing historical materials from the six colleges in the Health Science Center as well as the Health Center administrative unit, the Vice President for Health Affairs, and the Health Center Library. The materials in these collections help describe the history of founding of the Center in the 1940s and 1950s and its opening in 1956. The collections include administrative records, copies of oral histories from founding members ofUF Health Science Archives Photograph Collections

The University of Florida Archives supports topical research on the history of the University. It is the custodian of the University's historically significant public records including the administrative files of its past presidents. The Archives also collects the papers and records of individuals and organizations associated with the University and maintains files of yearbooks, student publications, and official University documents.University Archives

Women in Development collects research on societal structures in Africa, the Caribbean, and Latin America. These materials reflect the impact of women in rural and urban settings. They discuss issues of education, economic growth and legal rights among other topics.Women in Development